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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman | 2017-11-16 14:23:09 +0100 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet | 2017-11-20 10:43:06 -0700 |
| commit | 8ee25f6fcfa967da26c5dfa43c731a61f84f7404 (patch) | |
| tree | fb82d6e2aa80639d84b8ad28cc9393a5cb1959cb | |
| parent | 47427379ea80f1368ccec6ba20874fc19a9f0cc4 (diff) | |
Documentation/process: add Co-Developed-by: tag for patches with multiple authors
Sometimes a single patch is the result of multiple authors. As git only
can have one "author" of a patch, it is still good to properly give
credit to the other developers of a commit. To address this, document
the "Co-Developed-by:" tag which can be used to show other authors of
the patch.
Note, these other authors must also provide a Signed-off-by: tag as it
is their work that is being submitted here.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst b/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst index 1b7728b19ea7..645fa9c7388a 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst @@ -213,6 +213,11 @@ The tags in common use are: which can be found in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst. Code without a proper signoff cannot be merged into the mainline. + - Co-Developed-by: states that the patch was also created by another developer + along with the original author. This is useful at times when multiple + people work on a single patch. Note, this person also needs to have a + Signed-off-by: line in the patch as well. + - Acked-by: indicates an agreement by another developer (often a maintainer of the relevant code) that the patch is appropriate for inclusion into the kernel. |